Medieval: Total War XL

**Vladimir** · 03-13-2006, 13:56

I'm kinda curious about how I can tweak faction strengths. When playing XL from early/expert it's a foregone conclusion that the Egyptians will gobble up Byzantium and that the true horde from the East comes from Novgorod. Can this be corrected by changing faction behavior or adding/removing certain units from the roster?

**Pericles** · 03-14-2006, 00:01

One way to easily tweak faction strength is to give many of the weaker factions more florins.

So, pick the faction you want to play and the difficulty, then under that difficulty column give the Byzantiums (and other weak factions) from 10,000 up to 2,000,000 florins and more.

Experiment a little.

**Vladimir** · 03-14-2006, 14:16

I'll try reducing money then. I have no idea how those Novgorods find the funds to support their giant armies. They do seem to have an excellent Royal line though.

**Shaun** · 03-15-2006, 17:18

I have a few questions;

1) What factions can Crusade?
2)How come o lot of the new units arent avaliable in custom battle?

**Galagros** · 03-17-2006, 02:20

I just installed the 2.0 full mod and 2.1 full patch, but the game will not work. When I go to play it I get this on my desktop.

How can I fix this? I have installed and played the 2.0 full mod before, but never the patch. Help would be MUCH appreciated.

**Pericles** · 03-17-2006, 05:23

Originally Posted by Galagros

I just installed the 2.0 full mod and 2.1 full patch, but the game will not work. When I go to play it I get this on my desktop.

How can I fix this? I have installed and played the 2.0 full mod before, but never the patch. Help would be MUCH appreciated.

The mod works just fine, so the problem must be something with your installation.

My suggestion is to uninstall the game completely; then reinstall the game and then the mod.

**Galagros** · 03-18-2006, 03:31

Hmm, yeah that worked. Not sure what happened the first time. *shrug* I started off as the Scots and got destroyed by England on turn 15 or so.

...it wasn't my best moment.

Now I'm on a Normal/High game as the Teutonic Order. It's proving to be difficult because the Golden Horde steamrolled over the Volga Bulgars, Cumans, Russians, and Novgoradians before attacking me. We fought over Lithuania for about 10 years and I just barely avoided being destroyed. I almost quit the campaign, but decidedc I would stick it out. Now I control Livonia, Lithuania, Estonia, Novgorad, Finland, and Prussia? ... I think.

Expanding any further will be very tough and the map is full of larger empires. The Danes had a huge empire going in Scandinavia, Germany, Poland, and England, but they lost a crusade and had a ton of revolts. Sicilly had North Africa, Italy, and the Mediterranian, but soemhow they got reduced to 2 provinces. The Crusader States had all of the Muslim/Byzantine areas, but the king died without an heir and all those places are now rebels. Now the game is the Golden Horde and France expanding very rapidly.